Kengo Kuma   France   Through a series of stairs and ramps that follow a spiral formation, Saint-Denis Station expands public space and connects with the urban scheme of the Pleyel district in northern Paris. A work of the Japanese architect Kengo Kuma, the complex includ

Henning Larsen   Czech Republic   The Danish firm Henning Larsen Architects, in collaboration with the engineers of the Ramboll group, has won the competition to transform the main railway station of the city of Prague. The project reconnects the historic station with the Vrchlického

Dorte Mandrup   Sweden   The station has been renovated several times on the basis of the same element: the vault. The new design respects this geometry and is inspired by the city’s yellow brick facades to rebuild a large double-height hall in the three-story building…

Foster + Partners Arup Associates Junquera arquitectos   Spain   This flexible system organizes the ensemble by means of a geometric grid inspired by the current domes. The proposal consists of a modular terminal, a system of raised platforms, and a minimum intervention on the old passenger terminal…

Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSHP) Luis Vidal Meta Engineering Carlos González Casado Fhecor   Spain   The solar roof, formed by a simple structure of individual pitched modules, protects more than 130,000 square meters of station, and adopts a dynamic parallelogram shape that softens its encounter with the city along its four orientations…

Grimshaw Architects TYPSA Rubio Arquitectura   Spain   The proposal’s main aim is to improve the connection between Chamartín and the city, turning the plaza into a destination in its own right. Modular and prefabricated construction is used both on the roof and on the short-distance train platforms…

Eduardo Souto de Moura Francisco Mangado Ezquiaga Arquitectura Saitec Engineering WSP Spain   Spain   A series of large chimneys designed to bring in light and ventilation gather the structural elements of the urban park planned to cover the platforms of the intermodal station, and whose distribution is inspired by the form of the tracks themselves…

b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos ESTEYCO UNStudio   Spain   The railway complex is transformed into a large courtyard that generates several internal itineraries around the platforms and the tracks, guaranteeing connectivity and improving pedestrian circulation between the accesses from each side. The archite

Zaha Hadid Architects   Lithuania   With a scheme titled ‘Green Connect,’ the British firm Zaha Hadid Architects has won the competition to redevelop the train station of Vilnius and the areas around the complex. It will be part of the Rail Baltic line, for which the same architecture

Ábalos + Sentkiewicz   Spain   The result of a competition won in 2006, the intermodal station of Logroño was part of a much larger urban plan to bury the railway line as it traversed the capital of La Rioja region, and which also involved creating a large linear park and five res

Foster + Partners   China   The firm of Norman Foster has won the competition to design Guangming Hub, a transport-oriented development on the high-speed rail link that connects Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and Guangzhou, with three new metro lines incorporated. The latest technologi

Zaha Hadid Architects Esplan   Estonia   A design drawn up by the British firm Zaha Hadid Architects – in collaboration with the Estonian practice Esplan – has been awarded first prize in the competition for Rail Baltic’s new terminal in Ülemiste, a subdistrict of the country’s capital. The

Barozzi Veiga   Switzerland   Composed of a main building and two complementary ones, the project intends to define a new public space within a currently disused railway area, becoming an inhabited wall that serves as a neutral backdrop for urban life. The wall of the original bu

EM2N Architekten   The sheer dimensions of this hangar located in the railway hub of Zurich-Herdern will allow the maintenance of intercity trains of the Swiss train network. It rises two floor heights and stretches 400 meters. The function of the railway facility dete

Durisch + Nolli   Switzerland   The exhibition areas are elevated to create a big covered public plaza that follows the direction of the railway lines and brings to mind the lobby of a large train station…

Kuehn Malvezzi jessenvollenweider   Switzerland   The insertion of three new volumes in the old railroad depot results in a permeable building where indoor and outdoor spaces are integrated creating a whole and also supplement each other...

Gigon Guyer Architects   Switzerland   The new museum replaces the former railroad depot to achieve a better urban integration, creating two large public spaces linked by a wide passage with shops and galleries…

EM2N Architekten   Switzerland   The new volume of the museum is configured from the vertical projection of the boundaries of the existing hall. This will free up space on the ground floor to host a large multi-use room…

Caruso St John Architects   Switzerland   The main entrance to the complex is marked by a large portico that frames the views of the museum. Then, another open structure provides a covered path from the museum reception to the gallery building…

Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos   Spain   Going back to structures, but in large-scale works like Santa Justa, how did you conceive them? —Santa Justa is a turning point in our career because it involved a huge change of scale. We never wish to give structure too much presence, or let it imp

Herzog & de Meuron   Switzerland   As part of the rezoning plan for the area of land surrounding Basel station, a new signal box has been built to provide a highly automated system of point switching. The compact tower form is largely determined by its functions and positioning; this

Herzog & de Meuron   Switzerland   Like many railway stations which used to be part of the urban periphery, the Basel station has been engulfed by the city’s growth, giving rise to unresolved encounters between different building structures. As part of the rezoning project aimed at in

Rafael Moneo   Spain   In 1983, an invitational competition was called to enlarge Atocha Station, which meant demolishing the Carlos I overpass, as well as the extension and remodeling of the historical roof, the creation of a local commuter train station, the construction

The Elizabeth Line in London, designed by Grimshaw, Maynard, Equation, and AtkinsRéalis, has been named the 2024 winner of the Stirling Prize, which the Royal Institute of British Architects gives for best building completed in the United Kingdom. Pr

CNN   A maglev bullet train that can reach speeds of 600 kilometers per hour (373 miles per hour) has made its debut in Qingdao, China. Developed by the state-owned China Railway Rolling Stock Corporation, it's considered the world's fastest train. "Maglev

The firm led by the British architect Norman Foster has been selected to design Guangming Hub, a high-density urban development linked to the railway that runs through Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and Guangzhou. Following the model known as TOD (transit-orie

Adif has publicly named the teams selected to go on to phase two of the competition to transform the Madrid–Chamartín station: UNStudio with b720; RSHP with Luis Vidal; Souto de Moura with Francisco Mangado and José María Ezquiaga; Grimshaw with Carl

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The August 1999 issue of Dialogue asked: “Will we ever have a Bilbao in Taiwan?” The Taipei-based journal dedicated its cover to the fractured forms of Daniel Libeskind’s Jewish Museum, and printed the question mark of its Forum over a photograph of